WOMEN IN POLITICS

This learned, opinionated Renaissance monarch caused a sensation throughout Europe.

As Labor Secretary, she tried to save Jews fleeing the Nazi regime.

She was the first female presidential candidate to receive votes.

Landes thought women were better-suited than men to be mayor, and Seattle agreed, at least for a while.

Advocating for a son with cerebral palsy helped propel her into government work.

As a tourism official, her father green-lighted the Las Vegas slogan “What happens here stays here.”

One hundred years ago today, the 19th Amendment—extending the right to vote to women—was passed by the Senate and sent to the states for ratification. On August 18, 1920, American women finally secured that right. Calling the victory hard-won would be a t